Well we just got back to our hostel in Puno after a two day, one night home stay on the Amantani Island in Lake Titicaca. This lake is the second largest lake in South America and apparently it is one of the world's highest navigable bodies of water. To start off our trip we took a boat ride to where Uros Floating Islands where we got to learn about there very unique way of life. The Uros people, in an effort to escape from the Incas during war and territory i...

Well I think it's best to start this post of where the other one finished, the overnight bus trip to Cuzco. That was a bad time. It should have been really easy to get some sleep becuase we were in nice, comfy, first class seats that had lots of room. However, not long after our jouney began they decided to blast the heaters for the whole night. It was like a sauna on the bus and it was very uncomfortable. Needless to say I didn't get much sleep that night. Even...

Wow it seems like forever since I've posted a blog and I apologize. We have been without WiFi for a couple of days becuase we were in Colca Canyon. So I finally have a chance to post and I have lots to write about! Let's start with Ica/Huacachina, we were there on the 16th and 17th of June and let me tell you that was a fun time. Once we arrived, it was a short bus trip, and got settled we got to go Sand Buggying and Sand Boarding! That was definetly 3 hours we...

Yesterday late afternoon we rolled into Paracas on the double decker bus. It was a nice trip, the ocean on one side and sand on the other. The bus was really nice too, we sat on the top level in the first row which made it very easy to see everything. Before leaving Lima we went downtown and watched the changing of the guard. It was quite extreme with a band and marching and whatnot. It was cool to see but I didn't really know what was going on. One our way to t...

Yesterday was very busy. We went on a gourmet food tour from 10 in the morning until the afternoon. It was cool. We got kind of a mini tour of part of the city and we got to go to a market, a secret garden, a coffee shop and a fancy restaurant. The tour was pretty interesting, I learned about some of Peru's history. We drove around in a van with a group of 10 including the driver and the tour guide. As we drove the tour guide pointed out places and explained the...